Good Business: Andy Warhol’s Screenprints

Artwork by Andy Warhol featuring two overlapping dollar signs in red against a light background. — Andy Warhol, *$ (1)*, 1982, © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.

For immediate release

Tuesday, December 3, 2024

The Andy Warhol Museum announces Good Business: Andy Warhol’s Screenprints, on view May 23 – September 1, 2025.

Good Business: Andy Warhol’s Screenprints examines why screenprints are an essential part of Warhol’s body of work. Facilitating experimentation and mass distribution, prints can be simultaneously challenging and accessible.

Warhol embraced mechanical processes early in his career and found in screenprinting the perfect vehicle for image repetition, both for his works on canvas and for portfolios of prints on paper. Through collaborations with his studio assistants and established print publishers, Warhol generated nearly 20,000 prints throughout his career. Screenprinting techniques allowed him to create series of images in an assortment of color variations, resulting in one of his most recognizable signatures (the same image rendered in different colorways), while the ability to generate editions of prints on paper enabled collectors to acquire masterworks at (relatively) affordable prices. The salability of prints also raised funds for causes that were personally important to him.

“Warhol understood that prints were an effective way to generate income which could be used to support his more avant-garde projects, particularly his films,” said Amber Morgan, director of collections and exhibitions. “He also openly acknowledged the role prints had in getting his images in front of as many people as possible – by creating something accessible, he extended his reach.”

Good Business: Andy Warhol’s Screenprints provides insight into the screenprinting process and highlights how Warhol used this technique to explore familiar themes throughout his career. Warhol was many things—a painter, photographer, film director, entrepreneur and commercial artist. Printmaker is a critical part of that extensive resume.

Good Business: Andy Warhol’s Screenprints is curated by Amber Morgan, director of collections and exhibitions.

A press preview of the exhibition that includes a tour with Amber Morgan, director of collections and exhibitions, will take place on Thursday, May 22, 2025 at 2 p.m. at The Warhol. Reservations are required. Email press@warhol.org.

The Warhol receives state arts funding support through a grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency; and The Heinz Endowments. Further support is provided by the Allegheny Regional Asset District.

The Andy Warhol Museum

Located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the place of Andy Warhol’s birth, The Andy Warhol Museum holds the largest collection of Warhol’s artworks and archival materials and is one of the most comprehensive single-artist museums in the world. The Warhol is one of the four Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh.

Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh

Established in 1895 by Andrew Carnegie, Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh is a collection of four distinctive museums: Carnegie Museum of Art, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Carnegie Science Center, and The Andy Warhol Museum. The museums reach more than 1.4 million people a year through exhibitions, educational programs, outreach activities, and special events.

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